‘If you tell Aunt Nila that you were sick, you will get that app on your phone’

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Making a small giant football fan wear clothes other than his kit full of logos or avoiding a dead boring appointment. Amazing: what a small bribe can do.

Mallika (34), mother of Rohan (9) and Kiran (7):

“To get out of a boring appointment with boring acquaintances of my parents, I made up an excuse: our eldest son would be sick. The next time I had to make sure that Rohan would answer any questions he had to the lie.

I urged him: ‘If you tell Aunt Nila that you were sick, you will get such and such an app on your phone.’ I don’t make a habit of this, but these people are really so exhausting. I only meet them out of courtesy. I also don’t have the backbone to say no when they text again.”

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Lexi (31), mother of Dani (10) and Bonni (3):

“You can draw my son in an Ajax outfit. When the temperature rises above 10 degrees, he still goes to school in shorts even in winter. Dani has a closet full of the well-known red and white home shirts, but also all away kits from the past three years and various hoodies and tracksuits with the logo.

“In exchange for a neat dark blue polo and jeans, he receives a present”

Not bad with a football-crazy father and grandfather, but a bit of a shame as a football-hating mother. I’d love to see him in something else too. In order not to arrive with a half hooligan at family parties, Christmas and other heydays, I use a little bribery. He receives a present in exchange for a neat dark blue polo and jeans. Socks from the Ajax shop or something.”

77% of mothers in the Netherlands have to deal with mom shaming, according to research by Kek Mama. The editors found this so shocking that they started a campaign: Kek Mama launches mombracing, the counterpart of momshaming, and calls on all mothers to support each other instead of criticizing from now on.

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